FDA: FDA Achieves Year 1 Goals in Reducing Animal Testing in Drug Development

“One year ago, we issued an ambitious roadmap to eliminate unnecessary animal testing and replace animal testing with more precise ways of predicting drug safety in humans,” said FDA Commissioner Marty Makary, M.D., M.P.H. “In addition to ushering in more scientifically accurate way to test drugs before they are used in humans, the agency has made great strides to reduce research and development costs, which will lower drug prices for everyday Americans”